The U.K.- and Hong Kong-listed bank was also unlikely to go back to shareholders for more capital, after raising $17.7 billion earlier this month through a rights share holding, CFO Douglas Flint said, according to a report in the South China Morning Post.

The money raised by HSBC
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(5) seemed "an amount that made us extremely robust in any set of circumstances we could foresee," Flint said, according to the report.

Flint also forecast that Household Financial Corp., the bank's subprime lending arm in the U.S., won't need financial help from the rest of the group by the end of next year.

The report came after officials at major American banks, including Citigroup Inc.
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and Bank of America Corp.
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, said last week the banks won't require further capital injections from the U.S. government.

Lenders such as Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have been forced to accept public funds from the U.K. government in the wake of the severe impact of the global financial crisis.

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